About Sleepy Seedlings: The Bedtime Podcast with Trees
Gentle stories about trees, nature, and the quiet connections between us.
Told in a soft Scottish voice, these episodes offer a pause at the end of the day–
to rest, reflect, and drift gently into sleep..
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Sleepy Seedlings
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religion & spirituality · science · society & culture
What happens when a country decides to plant a forest not out in the wilderness, but right where people live? Between Bristol, Bath and the Mendips, a quiet experiment is beginning: 20 million trees, planted through city streets, schoolyards, and farmland. Not a single woodland, but a patchwork – a forest you live inside without ever needing to visit.
In this episode, we look at the Western Forest – how it started, what it hopes to become, and why planting trees you’ll never sit beneath might be the most human thing of all. A story about time, care, and the long, slow optimism of letting something grow.
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14 Jul 2025
What Happens When You Plant a Prison in a Forest
This episode tells the story of Halden, a maximum-security prison in Norway often called the most humane in the world. Built among birch and pine, with no bars on the windows and no guard towers, Halden challenges everything we think we know about punishment. But this isn’t a story about crime. It’s about what happens when trees become part of the architecture of change; as living witnesses to time, attention, and the possibility of becoming something else.
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8 Jul 2025
The Trees That Remember: A Memorial in Berlin
Some memorials are built in stone. Others are planted.
After the Berlin Wall fell, artist Ben Wagin created a living tribute on the very ground that once divided a city – a quiet space where trees, fragments of the Wall, and engraved granite slabs stand together in memory of those who died trying to cross. It's called the Parliament of Trees, and it still grows in the shadow of power, just steps from the German Parliament.
Tonight’s episode is about that place – what it meant, what it still means, and why choosing something living as a memorial says more than any monument could. It's about memory, resistance, and what happens when we choose life over order. Let the trees hold your thoughts, and settle in.
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5.0 / 5
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Spotify
4.9 / 5
30 ratings
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